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How to use despatches in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
During the second world war he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and was mentioned in despatches.
Acting Sgt Robert Storey receives a mention in despatches for his leadership during the fighting there.
He was mentioned in despatches for bravery and was twice wounded.
Healey was twice mentioned in despatches for his bravery in the war.
He was mentioned in despatches for his part in the Normandy landings.
Ronald Clack was injured by shrapnel at Arnhem and was mentioned in despatches and was demobbed at the end of the war with a Bombardier's stripes on his battledress sleeves.
The best journalistic despatches always come from behind enemy lines.
We only saw him on internet clips, only read about him in bulletins that became steadily harder to believe, like despatches from Alpha Centauri.
It is he whose hoarse whispers sound sepulchrally through the tubes, who rings the mysterious bell, and by such complex means despatches his 'shadows' upon their errands.
Despatches carrying news of the victory sparked euphoria in Britain, and were celebrated by numerous bonfires.
Examples from Classical Literature
She was so overjoyed that she not only made it public throughout France but despatches were sent off to all her royal relatives.
His prophetic and doleful despatches had been for years the joke of Foreign Offices.
Then handing it to his daughter, and instructing the young girl how to deliver it incog, he despatches her upon her errand.
All of its despatches from the West, Churchill's as well as others, were depreciatory.
The old histories emerge into light, like the writing in sympathetic ink on the secret despatches of King James.
A letter from the king to Fajardo answers previous despatches from the latter.
Undoubtedly here, too, the bags were secretly opened and our uncoded despatches and letters read.
Schaumburg was sent with despatches to Donop, who, however, had been killed before the arrival of his young aide-de-camp.
Suspecting that he had despatches for me, I directed my outrider to overtake him and find out.
In one of the despatches the cardinal declares to the queen that the treasury is empty and that her majesty has no more money.
Pitt and Grenville were well aware of this from Gower's despatches.
He called for his secretary, Mr. Campbell, to write the despatches.
With his wife by his side, Miguel cons his occasional despatches.
He knew little, he said, for he only carried despatches from Schwerin.
At every call he would inquire, gravely and expectantly, for despatches.
Elkanah Watson was also a bearer of despatches to Dr. franklin.
But the despatches of Hasdrubal were intercepted by the Romans.
Complains of the infrequency and delay of despatches from Mr Adams.
My despatches are unreplied to, my questions all unanswered.
Despatches of royal ministers, bearing the broad seal of France.
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